A US jury finds Jordan-based Arab Bank liable for providing material support to Hamas and orders it to pay compensation to victims of terror attacks.

The US and other nations, including Arab states, begin air strikes against Islamic State militant targets in Syria, the Pentagon says.

Thousands of Hong Kong students are to gather in a park in front of government offices, on the second day of a week-long protest.

Re-elected Prime Minister John Key says a referendum on whether to change the national flag of New Zealand could be held next year.

A dispute has broken out between Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands over where the preserved body of a Galapagos giant tortoise should be housed.

A court in China has found prominent Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti guilty of separatism and jailed him for life, his lawyer says.

An explosion at a fireworks factory in China has killed at least 12 people and injured 33 others, local government officials say.

A growing number of Chinese companies are exporting "tools of torture" such as electric shock batons and spiked metal batons, Amnesty says.